Casper Team Ropers Win Big in Salt Lake City [VIDEO]
The Casper brothers Johnson - Kellan & Carson, 19 and 17 respectively - won team roping gold medals and $50,000 each at the revamped and heavily cash-infused Days of '47 Cowboy Games & Rodeo in Salt Lake City this week. It's taken a little effort to get you a good look at the winning run of 4.1 seconds but it is worth every tick if you've not yet seen the boys show all us old coots how to get the job done under pressure. The sons of 2011 world champ heeler Jhett Johnson and mom Jenny, a Casper elementary school teacher, won the semis in Salt Lake as well to sweeten the pot by another $3,200. We should add the pride of Rocky Mountain High School in Cowley, WY won silver in Salt Lake's bareback riding competition to earn $25,000 on a reride horse called Power Play. J.R Vezain spurs out at Cheyenne Frontier Days today and tomorrow with plans to make the Sunday Finals at "The Daddy